Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then the other side of Berlin presented itself in his small, bare office: a statuesque platinum blonde in a shining satin dress that crept a span above shapely bare knees when she sat beside his desk. She fluttered her long, blue-tinted eyelashes, and smiled...
...trace of a Brooklyn accent and a tendency to curl out of the side of his mouth. He reads widely, but except for an occasional detective story, only on economic or technical matters. He has developed the knack of boiling his own economic ideas down to clean, bare bones. Sample: "The whole objective of industry should be to reduce prices. That's what produces employment and expands business." The Way Up. Unlike many another G.M. bigwig, Mr. Sloan did not drive himself to the top by his own supercharger...
...glass lake's center, directly beneath the bomb's exploding point, is a crater of bare earth about 15 ft. deep and 300 ft. across. Scientists told newsmen the earth here was pushed downward ten feet by the explosion's force. Stumps of the four reinforced-concrete tower pillars that supported the bomb still stand in the crater, flaked and twisted. The rest of the tower has vanished into vapor...
Merry Christmas? Nor are retailers, already thinking about Christmas, sure how merry it will be. Many shelves will still be bare...
...Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...